New Ulm weekly review., 1887-03-02

Only one marriage license was is.
sued in Brown County during the last
1 three weeks: John Reinartz to Anna
Beck.
i Monday Mr.. j. Aleile took his oath
OF office as janitor of the Union School
building. His predecessor, Mr.. Eyer,
VIII open . carpet factory next spring.
For extreme slowness the Western
Union Telegraph Company is entitled
to the confectionery. The wires for
their city Office were strung over three
weeks ago, but as yet they haven't
opened the office for business.
Fears are entertained that when the
immense amount of snow, which has
fallen during the winter, melts it will
render the Minnesota river navigable
and thereby cut off congressional ap-
preparations, river conventions and all
other expensive luxuries designed to
accomplish this purpose.
! Saturdays blizzard blockaded the
railroad more efectually than any pre-
Vlous storm has done. In a great
many places the drifts are from ten to
twenty feet high and solid enough to
carry the weight of a team. At the
present time (Monday) it looks as
though we::will not have a train from
the easH for several days. Monday
morning Thos. Mulverhill drove to St.
Peter to bring down some passengers
and mail and return with our eastern
! mail.
N. Heinen took seventy men with him
! Monday to help shovel the snow out of
! the cuts on the railroad track west of
here. Railroad officials say that snow
plows are of no avail when the snow is
packed as solid as it is now. The king
| plow only made seven miles in a day
and half. With large force of men
they can clear the road quicker and
cheaper than the plow does now.
The city election will be held April 5.
The 1st and 3rd Wards elect two coun-
cilmen each; two to serve for two years
and two for one year. The second Ward
has no one to. elect as the terms of
| councillors Schmucker and Crone do
not expire until 1883. We have not
heard of any candidates for these posi-
tions but suppose that plenty of them
will be in the field when the time
| comes.
Anton Brey has bought the Meat
Market and Sausage Factory of F. J.
Glassbrenner at Minneapolis. He will
remove there with his family next week
and take possession March 13. Anton
Loesch goes with him. The establish
ment Mr.. Brey has purchased is quoted
as the largest sausage factory in Min
neapolis. Twelve men are employed
constantly. The stand is corner of
Third Street and Twentieth Ave. south
where Anton will be glad to see his
friends. -.
h..1he committee appointed by the New
Ulm Lodge Sons of Herman to agitate
for the proposed monument met at the
Tivoli Sunday evening. The project
was discussed at length and it was re-.
solved to ask the home lodge to present
their plans and subscription list to a
meeting of citizens March 18th. The
prevailing sentiment seemed to be that
the members of the lodge should set the
ball in motion and after they had ex-
hausted their means to call on the citi-
zens at large. There is no doubt that
a sufficient sum of money can be raised
here to purchase the land and build
the foundation. After this is done the
lodges of the different states will fur
nish the money to complete the monu-
ment.
! Cooperative building societies, or
what are known here as building and
loan associations, are becoming an i'm.
portant factor in the improvement and
development of towns and cities and
likewise in the promotion Of the welfare
Of the laboring classes. In the city Of
St Paul, for instance, through the agen-
cy of building and loan associations,
from 5000 to 10000 families have been
provided with homes of their own who
without the aid of this agency would
doubtless still be living in rented hous-
es. It is stated that about one-fourth of
the families in St. Paul are interested
in these building associations and that
more than = thousand loans Of the
character indicated are made yearly.
Forty building and loan associations in